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Boeing's 787 Dreamliner Takes Flight

Posted by kdawson on from the million-lines-of-code-on-the-wing dept.

Bordgious and a number of other readers sent word of the 787 Dreamliner's first flight after two years of delays. The four-hour test kicks off nine months of airborne testing. Aviation Week has video of the test flight and a timeline of the 787's development. Here is the flight path. 840 of the planes are on order now, down from a high of 910, as some customers canceled orders due to the delays.

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  1. Indeed, Aluminum sucks by Richy_T · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even just crossing the atlantic, it lost an "I"

  2. Re:And the wings might not even fall off in flight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean "leaves the ground". The FAA don't require any tests before planes leave the air, that happens naturally.

  3. Re:And the wings might not even fall off in flight by MouseR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Might as well close Slashdot.

  4. Re:Yawn. by PPH · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's nothing. I'm amazed that we can make these monkeys wait in long lines, take their shoes off and subject themselves to numerous other forms of abuse for the chance to do so.

    I'd have expected the feces-flinging to have started long before we reached this point.

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